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Lampblack pg. 4242 Lamprey

Fire and night are held in the skull.Melted fat, lit rushes and bone:the first lamp. Capillary attraction of the wick(the sticks) for the grease, keeps the flameburning. For twenty-seven years, Webster wrote

the first American dictionary by candle,with light reflecting off highly polished tin.Before this, music ended with a k.Now the u is lost in color. Paintand printer’s ink came from crude lampblack

(See: soot). At the bottom of the ocean,the lamprey, lowest of vertebrates,possibly the ancient ancestor of all animalswith backbones, attaches its teeth to fish,scrapes a hole in the flesh, and sucks

out blood. Death from diseaseslike rheumatic fever or mathematics,the recurrence of certain numbers. 42,repeated twice for this page, is 21 doubled,which is 12 mirrored. 12=2+3+7. Room 237

is the room in The Shining wherethe lights stay on. Stay away. Spine:appendages of bone, the hinged backof a book, shiver down the.It’s All Forgotten Now is the 13th song

on this LP soundtrack. Electricity replaced kerosenereplaced oils replaced candles replacedgrease. The Guttenberg Printing Press,next typewriters. 9-to-5s are now 8-to-6.All work and no play…Burning the midnight…,

the candle…the ash at the end of a cigarettedoesn’t drop during a long take under blazingstudio lights (See: sun lamp). A firereduced the set to cinders. Cut for the night,for morning keeps gold in its mouth.